Category: Joan Crawford

Above Suspicion (1943) Not even Nazis stand a chance with Joan Crawford, who honeymoons with Fred MacMurray on the continent, both willing agents of British intelligence out to find a scientist who has information about Nazi magnetic sea mines. Richard Thorpe directs this spy thriller, based loosely on a fictional account of a true story. … More Above Suspicion (1943)

Possessed (1947) Not to be confused with the 1931 pre-Code Crawford melodrama, Curtis Bernhardt brings his German expressionist style to bear on this Freudian study of a psychotic breakdown. Joan Crawford said this was the most difficult role she ever played. Van Heflen, as the cynical war vet, and Raymond Massey, as the stern … More Possessed (1947)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Carmen Maura gives a defining performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s Spanish screwball comedy. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s La Voix Humaine, the film reveals a ‘new woman’ of the Post-Franco generation, someone who, like Pepa, caught in a whirlwind of passionate breakup, takes control of her life, and, … More Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)